FILE - The Pacers' Donald Sloan keeps his eye on Cleveland's Jarrett Jack at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Saturday Nov. 2, 2013. The Pacers won 89-74.

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Candace Buckner
candace.buckner@indystar.com

ORLANDO - Since Saturday night, the video of Oklahoma State sophomore Marcus Smart shoving a Texas Tech fan has been shown repeatedly and digested throughout social media. Indiana Pacers guard Donald Sloan understands what might have prompted Smart's outrage, because he too knows about the "the guy at Tech."

"Same Tech fan," Sloan said on Sunday. "He's been doing that ever since I was there."

Sloan played four years at Texas A&M (2006-10), a conference rival of Texas Tech, and has stories about the fan that Smart shoved. The man has been identified as Jeff Orr, a Tech loyalist who has season ...